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Review on NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet by Adam Worek ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

I definitely recommend buying, I didnt notice any disadvantages.

I have been using it for more than six months, and apart from the described shortcomings, I did not find anything. There were problems after ating the firmware, for example, once usb-otg stopped working, but a new firmware was released as soon as possible, which fixed everything. There are no complaints about the camera - it's not "awful", but it's just there as a function. The picture quality is above average. But what for it is there . Sometimes, in the headphones connected to the tablet, the sounds of pickup from the GSM receiver directly skip. It is not always sure that it keeps an Internet connection via LTE - it jumps from 3G to LTE, but this may not be the fault of the device itself, although everything works stably on iPhones. There is an original gamepad - a cool thing, but basically it is lying around idle, so if you do not purposefully purchase this tablet for games, you can do without it. WI-FI and Bluetooth work flawlessly. There is a stylus that you can use when you don’t want to hold this miracle in your hands, typing and browsing the Internet with it is even more convenient in places. Recently it turned out that he has a nice bonus unplanned by the developers - he almost perfectly fits into the opening of the open glove box on top of the console in the Skoda Octavia A5. We put it there, turn on the navigator and go)) When traveling with . Navigator, it was very convenient, and the stereo sound came in handy - voice prompts and instructions are clearly audible. By the way, the device does not have a standard charger: the output is 5.2 V and 2.1 A - so the tablet quickly charges only with it. The first time I charged from a car source, and even not using a non-original USB cable, looking at how slowly it was charging, I was afraid that I could ruin the device. But I was worried in vain, everything works fine, just slower. There is flickering of the screen at low brightness, but I don’t see the point of using such a minimum - you don’t need to consider it a disadvantage.

Pros
  • 1) Good screen: enough for the Internet, games and other multimedia. 2) Performance: programs work, in the sense they fly. 3) Flexible setting of the power plan. 4) Almost pure Android, with a couple of pre-installed programs from Nvidia. 5) miniHDMI: before choosing this tablet, I considered several other options, but the communication and switching capabilities of this particular tablet did their job. 6) Nice plastic: maybe I'm the only one who is "wrong", but fashionable rough aluminum surfaces only annoy me, although they look great.
Cons
  • 1) The build quality is good, but after a couple of months I found that small cracks appeared on the end part at the corners, and in one even a piece of plastic broke off. It's just embarrassing. The company acknowledged the violation of process control, and issued a recall of a batch of devices. 2) Sometimes I ate the battery mercilessly, after debriefing I came to the conclusion about the problems of the Android platform itself and its applications - some applications were cyclically overloaded and haunted the processor. 3) Branded cover-cover is suitable only as a simple stand. It is not very convenient to hold a tablet with an open "cover" in your hands. There are lines on the screen from fingerprints with which the cover is not in contact. 4) You need a very good Internet connection to fully and without problems use Nvidia GRID, although one evening I also drove Batman's LTE.